Optimal redundancy allocation for information technology disaster recovery in the network economy

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 262-267

  Shao, Benjamin B M ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support; Disaster recovery planning; Discrete optimization; Probabilistic dynamic programming; Protection; Redundancy allocation; Security; Survivability

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING; DISCRETE OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILISTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; REDUNDANCY ALLOCATION;

REDUNDANCY;

EID: 27644518674     PISSN: 15455971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2005.38     Document Type: Article

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